Most people don’t believe that we have the power to actively change their state from miserable and morose to happy and satisfied. And the kicker is, it doesn’t too much effort to change states naturally.
The real challenge is having the faith to try. r
The first thing to remember is to never beat yourself up. You are not spineless, a pushover or insecure, you’re a human being. For hundreds of thousands of years, humans have relied on cooperation and trading favors to keep themselves sheltered and fed. Our ancestors saw that those who weren’t willing to lend a hand found themselves without friends to help them out, sometimes to the detriment of their survival. r
Doing small kindnesses for others is always a win-win. Whoever said it’s better to give than receive was right in more ways that one. r
Humans are relational beings, hard-wired for community and better together. Solitary confinement is the roughest sentence an inmate can get, yet many free, law-abiding citizens sentence themselves to solitary confinement daily by choosing isolation over living in community with others. r
Yet, despite amazing advances in neurological studies, many questions as to how and why the brain functions and what it might be capable of are still a mystery.
But one thing is clear: Your brain must be fed, and well, if you expect to grow as a person. r
It’s an illusion if you believe, “If they’d be like that, I’d be like this.” You give away your power by believing your state is dependent on others. By playing the blame game, you shout to the world: r
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